Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium
From Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
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· 28 Sep 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Martin Atkins wrote: > Pete, ASCII is at most an 8-bit character set. There are 8 bits to every > byte of a file. Therefore it is not possible to increase the ascii character > set to any more bits without severly changing several things in any > operating system ever invented. You overlooked that ascii art requires more than just the ascii code set. Even a simple text editor uses a typographical code set to render ascii art. The ascii standard did not pose any limitations on using ascii code in conjunction with other codes. ========================================================= [] .oo Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( -) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] " " Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes [] =========================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,de3737aab10fae64 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium Date: 1998/09/28 Message-ID: <361...@sympatico.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 395781715 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <Pin...@onyx.southwind.net> <360...@sympatico.ca> <6u9edj$9e...@vccsouth-21.rcs.rpi.edu> <360...@sympatico.ca> <Pin...@onyx.southwind.net> <360...@sympatico.ca> <Pin...@onyx.southwind.net> <360...@sympatico.ca> <6uf8e3$7p...@cii3130-22.rcs.rpi.edu> <360...@sympatico.ca> <360...@news.vossnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Frogstein and Birdstein Productions MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:47:25 EDT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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